Valve and valve-gear for steam-engines.



No. 891,255. I PATENTED JUNE 23, 1908.

' 0. HOLEN, JR. I

VALVE AND VALVE GEAR FOR STEAM ENGINES.

APPLIGATIGN FILED FEB. 8, 1907.

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OLE HOLEN, 1a., or nRITToN. SOUTH DAKOTA.

VALVE :AND VALVE-GEAR'FOR STEAM-ENGINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June as, 1908,

Application filed February}, 1907. Serial N 0. 856,367.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, OLE HoLEN, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing-at Britton, in the county of Marshall and State of South Dakota, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Valves and Valve-Gears for Steam-Engines; and I do declare the'following to .be a full, clear, and exact descri tion of the invention, such as will enab e others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use .the same, reference being i had to the accompanyin drawings, an'dto shaft, and 4 the connectin the letters and figures o reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. Y o I My inventionrelates to valves and valve gears for steam engines; and the object is to .provide and so improve and simplify the same that .a reversible engine with two cranks on its shaft and a double-acting cylinder operating each crank, will need but one single valve to regulate bothinlet and ex haust. This object I attain by the novel construction and-arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in

which Figure 1 is top or plan view of an engine provided with my improved valve and valve ear. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of Fig. -1. i 3 is a sectional plan view on the line a a in ig. 2. Fig. 4 is an enlarged view of the valve plug in thesame position as in Fig. 3.- Fig. 5 is a right side view of Fig. 4. Flg. 6 is a right si e of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a right side view of Fi 6 with the valve shell or chamber in vertical section on the line b b in Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is an enlargedvertical sectional view on the line 0 c in Fig. 1.

Referrin to the drawing by reference numerals, 1 'esignates the frame, 2 the crank rods or itmen of an engine With two doub e acting cy 'nders 3 and3. Between said cylinders and come municating with their. interior is mounted a cylindrical valve shell or casing 5, which may or may not have its ends closed by covers 6. In said valve casing is fitted to rotate snugly a cylindrical valve plug'7, which in Figs. 4, 6, and 7 .is shown from four different sides. In the valve 'is fixed a lon stem or shaft 88, which is journaled in earings 9 and is rotated by a miter-gear 10 fixed on it and another miter gear 11 meshing therewith and fixed on the crankshaft 2, so that each turn of the crank shaft imparts one turn tothe valve. As the valve is thus revolved the live ports in the valve.

steam enters through inlet 12 and exhausts :at the oppositeside of the valve shell at 13, where it is-gathered from ports-or ducts 13 (see Fig. 7), after circulating to and from the cylinders through the various ducts" and Said circulation of the steam will follow when the valve and its shell aremade as illustrated, and the same can be better .understood by an engineer or an en- -gine'builder looking atthe drawing than it can be described, still the'following description may render some help to anunderstanding of the construction, r

The valve 7 is a solid cylindrical body in which are formed-at the middle a peripherioal groove 14 for the live-steam pouring in through pipe 12, and near each end is a similargroove 15for the exhaust steam to reach the ports 13*.

Adapted to register with-the ports 16,

16 '16, and 16 of the cylinders, the valve is provided with four peripherical rows of ports, each row containing two diametrically opposite ports 17, 17", 17 17, 17 and 17.

18 is a diagonal duct orextension of port 17 intothe groove 14,.and 18 is a similar duct from port 17 into the oove 14, while 19 and 19 are longitudinal ucts from ports 17 and 1.7",- respectively, into the groove 15. The two diagonal ducts stand in transverse diametrical planes to each other, and the lon itudinal ducts 19 and 19 are arranged eac in longitudinal line with one of the ports 17 and 17 Now, as the valve is revolved it will be seen that the live steam has a chance to enter the opposite ends of both cylinders in the proper order for driving the en ine in the usual manner, and return and ex aust through the various orts described, as will be still further descri ed later on.

The cut-off. and ex ansion of the steam may be regulated by the size of the openingsof each 1port at the surface of the valve plug in erip cal direction of the lug.

- he abutments 20 may be 0 any suitableform and ma be cast integral with .either the valve shell or the cylinders.

The valve rod is divided at 21 into two sections 8 and 8 which are near the abutting ends provided each with a radial pin 22 which are guided in a V-sha ed or double slanting side slot 23 of a slidab e coupling 24, which embraces the rod and has an annular groove 25 en 'aged'by studs 26in a yoke 27 ormed on a fever 28, which is pivoted at 2.9

- and has a tooth 30 adapted to engage any of the-notches of a notched sector'orrack- 31. W hen'the lever 28-is placed at one end of the rack the engine willrun one way and when placed at the other end of the racli'the .mem-

er 24'will act on the his 22 and impart one fourth of a turn to t e valve plug without turning the gear 10, and the engine will be reversed. It will beobservedthat theslot in member 24"is slanting from'the middle to-" .ward both ends in opposite direction or at an obtuse angle, whereby the necessary sliding of the member is reduced-to a minimum.

When the engine is running at full speed one of the ins 22Vis at the middle of the slot and the ot er in'the end' of it, both of which places are without slantin so as to aiford good holds for the pins.

the middle of the rack 31 the engine stop as the ports. in the valve-shell are closed by en thelever is at the plug, and if the engine stirs at all the steam -Wlll soon be equalizedon all sides of the pistons32; The speed of the engine may steam it will be seen t at when the e also. be reduced b movi the lever more or less toward the middle of t e rack so that the solid facel'of the valve will more or less cover the steam orts of the cylinders atthe time they woul normally be open to allow full a'c-' tion of the steam on the pistons.

the circulation ot the. ngine is In further describi' one direction the front end of the cylinder 3 receives steam'through-valve port .181 7% and exhausts through valve port.

1'1, while the rear end of the cylinder recei'ves steam through port 17. and exhausts 4'0. andexhausts by port 17,.- ence it is evi through'port- 17; and the cylinder 3, re-

o ceive's thesteam into its .fI'ont-end 1) port 1 179, and exhausts 1t rear end receives. steam y the ort 1817 In testimonywhereof I port 17", While the from the. nearest port in the other pair; said 7 ports opening, one diagonally through the dent that when the valve is given one-half of a I linesa pair ofdiametv .rically o os1teports,-eaeh port in the two pairs being situated about ninety degrees valve into the annular groove. at the middle,

another and opposite one extendin 10 itudinally along the face of the valve 1nto t e annular groove near theflend of the valve, the third port extending, open as a canal into the annular-groove at the middle of the valve,

andthe opposite port extendi below the surface of thevalve longitudina ly into the annular groove near the end of 'the valve;

a shell, chamber or casing encircling said "-valve and having steam ports registering with theth'r'ee annular grooves, and two .pairs of orts, eachport. adapted to register alternate y with the opposite ports of apair in-the valve, and thus conduct steamrto and from a pair of double acting steameyhnders, I

and means for rotatingtthe valve by the rotation of the eng nesha in presence of two witnesses.

' v OLE Witnesses:

E. CooPnR, LOUIS GUARVE.

HOLEN, JR.

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